Yesterday I read this insightful reflection by Mark Nepo, a poet, educator, and cancer survivor, on floating and faith.
“When thrust into any situation over our head, our reflex is to fight with all our might the terrible feeling that we are sinking. Yet the more we resist, the more we feel our own weight and wear ourselves out.
At times like this, I remember learning to float. Mysteriously, it required letting almost all of me rest below the surface before the deep would hold me up. It seems to me, almost forty years later, that the practice of finding our faith is very much like that—we need to rest enough of ourselves below the surface of things until we find ourselves upheld.
This is very hard to do. But the essence of trust is believing you will be held up if you let go. And though we can practice relaxing our fear and meeting the deep, there is no real way to prepare for letting go other than to just let go… Perhaps faith is nothing more than taking the risk to rest below the surface… That we must move through the sense of sinking before being upheld is what trusting the Universe is all about.”
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I’m excited to share a small book of some of my favorite posts. Here is the download link: A Miracle Mindset Book.
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